[quote]But there are sales of games like up to 90%[/quote] [quote]be surprised what you can get for like $5.[/quote] I am wondering what the devs of these games got from that prices ... What is good for Steam is not necessary good for the devs.
If my sovereign is outside of the army and casts mass heal on taht army, all units in the army are fully healed
When I load the following savegame http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/2b_stuck_next_turn/stuck.EleSav and hit next turn, the game hangs and the following turn never happens. I am still able to exit the game normally. The debug.err became very large http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/2b_stuck_next_turn/debug.zip
[quote]In a screenshot, I've seen a "Teleport into friendly territory" spell and in another thread Frogboy mentioned an AI function "How many armies threaten this area" or something like that. It was like a flashback to a time of total AI failure.[/quote] It isn't the same to be able to teleport in your territory (defensive move) vs teleport into ennemy territory (like you did in HOMM3)
[quote] As 1 extra point in either INT or WIS simply means 1 extra mana. Which is what you get from putting that point in essence. And it's kinda debatable which would be better. [/quote] The idea was to give the same benefit for mana while having the player decides if he really wants to invest in essence or in another characteristics that increase mana. We just need nice incentive for making the choice between essence, INT and WIS not obvious Another idea behind the formula w
That could be 2 things: - new preorders don't have access to the beta - no new builds for beta testers
BTW, in that thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/385685 I have proposed another formula for mana: mana = essence + max(0, INT + WIS - 20). I somehow find it strange that Intelligence affects only the strength of your spells and not your ability to cast more spells.
If you have a sovereign with the organized talent, lots of move and leading an army. Try to save the game. Then exit and load the game. Your sovereign will have only 2 moves, like he hasn't the organized talent. But if you hit next turn, the organized talent will be correctly taken into account and your sovereign will lead your army with all of his movements points
Following some feedback I have made on essence https://forums.elementalgame.com/385601 , I have though more about sovereign statistics. Brad has stated that your sovereign should feel powerful at the start of the game. Having a sovereign with only 2 times the HP of peasants and the same than wandering NPC doesn't really feel powerful. It would be another story if the HP of your sovereign (and only for the sovereign) was
If you look at the top right of you screen, there is a small toogle allowing you to get a terrain info window. Very useful to spot grassland or beach ;)
The description of the familiar is: Formed from the very essence of the caster, a familiar is a precious entity. Weak at first, in time, it can become a potent weapon. The problem is that when it is summoned, it is generally better than any individual sovereign: 15 HP, 5 ATK, 5 DEF. But it doesn't gain any level. So I don't see how it can became a potent weapon.
It seems to be linked with factions: - if you choose pariden, you can research all spells book you have choosen - if you choose Altar or Capitar, you can only research life - If you choose gilden, you can research earth, fire and life - If you choose Tarth, you can research air, ice and life
I forgot the strange noise quest with the cost of 5 essence for having 2 eben-wolf. That wasn't really a problem in Beta 1Z when founding a city required 5 essence points and gaining a level would give you 5 essence points. But now that you can get only one essence points when levelling, it is another story.
In beta 2B, you can use essence for the following: - revive land : 5 points - create a garden (for an output of 8 food) : 3 points - summon a familiar: 1 point - escape deafeat by cheating death: 1 point Since there are some patches of revitalized lands available on the map, 5 points is really too much since if you are waiting a bit, you can hope to find a spot where to found a city without needing to spend essence. This also means that Pariden isn't an
I have exposed another imporvement about spell bar in this thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/385512
[quote] Like I said it does make a difference I'm just not sure it makes enough of a difference to merit two separate stats.[/quote] Well, some weapons increases your combat speed (like dagger) while others decrease it (like 2 hands swords). Similarly, plate armor decreases you combat speed. It would be horrible in term of gameplay if you couldn't move on the map a full armored units. after all, there were some complaint about base movement speed when it was only 1.
In the following savegame http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/2b_mass_heal/Mass%20heal.EleSav my sovereign army is composed of 3 units: the sovereign ( 8/11 HP) Rilis ( 16/18 HP) and a familiar ( 15/15 HP) Mass heal is supposed to heal all the units in an army. When my sovereign cast Mass heal on his army, only the sovereign is healed.
[quote]If all strength does is influence your attack then it serves no purpose in having two game stats.[/quote] Have you cheked the calculation? your attack = your base attack * your strength / 10 You can find items that increase your base attack and you can increase you strength only with level up. That way, the weapons can have an absolute value for attack while taking into account the fact that some heros will do more damage than others with the same weapon. <
Despite all the battles I have made in beta 2B, I haven't seen any battle report. They were available in previous betas.
Are you sure you aren't mixing crystal and shard?
When I start a game with Lady Procipinee and go to the researchable spell, I see spells from all the books she has at the start of the game When I create a custom sovereign and choosing all available spellbooks, I can only research spell from the life spell book at the beginning of the game. I can't research spells from the earth, wind, fire and ice spellbooks.
Brad has stated numerous times that recruiting a Dragon would a very big thing. In beta 2B there are Drakes. And their stats are : HP 150, ATK 80, DEF 40. This beast will be hard to kill, if you look at the calculations in that thread https://forums.elementalgame.com/384546/page/1/#2655369 , reply 22: [quote] I have done so
Having no recording on how the quest ended is really annoying.
Since technology screen are presented as soon as a research is completed, it could ben ice to have a similar behavior for the spell research. I found myself not paying too much attention to that bar. So it could be nice if the spell book is presented to me when the spell bar reaches it maximum. That way, you wouldn't loose turn in spell research. Obviously, the spell book shouldn't be proposed if the previous turn, the spell bar was already filled
I would like to know you could rotate the map if you have only 2 mouse buttons. Because I am stuck with this view This has happened after I have planned some improvements with build city zoom mode enabled. It is the first time that this appeared.